Regarding famous cursed stone, there are a few others than the Hope and Koh-i-noor :
The Black Orlov. broken in three to break the curse, unfortunately, but that could be ... repaired.
The Cursed Opal of Spain Royal family.
The cursed Amethist, already coming with an mounting engraved with symbols and 2 stone shaped like egyptian scarabs ...
But those and others may be 'too famous'.
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Originally Posted by Icelander
Does anyone have any ideas as to which minerals or precious stones might be useful for rituals cast by the Keepers of the Last Hearth, an apocalyptic cult using a specialized loss-based version of the Path of Nonexistance and worshiping the Lords of the Last Waste (or the Cold Ones), vast, cool and unsympathetic intelligences existing Outside of this universe, associated with the end of everything, cold, dark, death and loss?
And, as for those cultists who were previously magicians in different traditions, such as Chinese Gu or Gong Tau or various Indigenous South American traditions, what are good minerals or gemstones to associate with different kinds of dark magic?
Onyx and obsidian seem obvious. What else? |
For modern tradditionnal trappings, I would look into the 'cremation crystal', with companies offering to make glass crystal infused with cremation ashes and colored/cut to look like a precious stone...
For the worshipper of the Cold Ones, meteoric iron or lunar rock sample could be associated with cold and dark.
And meteoric iron have a long history of magical use.